Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Stacey, a kindergarten teacher, is teaching her students about mammals. She tells the students that fishes and birds are not mammals. In this scenario, Stacey is using _____ of the mammal concept.

In the context of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SBIS), which of the following statements is true of intelligence quotient (IQ)?

In the context of genetic influences on intelligence, a classic study in Louisville, Kentucky, found that:

According to psycholinguistic theory, environmental influences do not affect language acquisition.

_____ is defined by the ability to cope with novel situations and generate many possible solutions to problems.

The Flynn effect refers to the way in which wording, or the context in which information is presented, affects decision making.

An anagram is a partial similarity among things that are different in other ways.

Which of the following statements is true of heuristics?

A(n)__________is the tendency to respond to a new problem with the same approach that helped solve similar problems.

In contrast to algorithms, heuristics guarantee a correct solution.

Regularization in problem solving refers to standing back from the problem for a while as some process within may continue to work on it.

According to research, intelligence quotient (IQ) scores tend to increase during the summer vacation.

Identify a true statement about environmental influences on intelligence.

Overregularization reflects faulty language development.

Joshua, a ten-year-old boy, knows that snakes are reptiles, all reptiles are animals, and all animals are living things. In this scenario, Joshua organizes concepts in _____.

Unlike babbling, crying and cooing are inborn and prelinguistic.

Dave could not remember the last digit of his friend's cell phone number, so he kept trying different digits until he found the right one. In this scenario, which of the following methods did Dave use?

Children's__________become refined after they are shown positive and negative instances and given explanations.

__________is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.

Which of the following is a reason for overconfidence?